Bad for Romney or bad for Obama? Ace is in eeyore mode as a defense mechanism to prepare his brain and heart in case it’s bad for Mitt, but that would be a surprise given how pro-Romney the Drudge Report has been during the campaign. (“No one has displaced [Romney campaign manager] Matt Rhoades in the Republican firmament as the go-to Drudge guy,” said one top GOP operative last year.) On his site, Drudge says the video was recorded six years ago, which means it can’t be the long-sought Khalidi tape. That was recorded in 2003. It can’t be the Michelle Obama “whitey”/”why’d he” tape either, which was allegedly recorded in 2004. This is likely something new.

Can’t wait to find out which campaign pulled the pin and tossed this grenade by feeding oppo to the media the night before the debate. Excitement! While we wait, here’s Paul Ryan converting a turnover by America’s sexiest grandpa into one of the easiest lay-ups in political history.

Update: Tomorrow’s debate should be a humdinger:

One thing to bear in mind per Drudge’s mention that the tape is six years old: Obama was already two years into his Senate term at the time and well along in thinking about running for president. A guy in that position normally isn’t given to saying Drudge-worthy things about race publicly, so I’m assuming the tape must have been made in a semi-private setting — at a fundraiser, say, a la Romney’s “47 percent” comments. I wonder if Hillary’s camp knew about it all along in 2007-08 but sat on it because it was too politically explosive or if this will be news to them too.

Update: It’ll air on Hannity’s show. The teaser on his site: “It’s a bombshell video that you will only see tonight on ‘Hannity,’ and it’s one that could dramatically impact the race for the White House”.

Update: Haven’t had a chance to watch yet, but a reader notes that this video from 2007 looks a lot like the screencap that Drudge just posted. Drudge is also now teasing, though, that the Daily Caller will have an “unscrubbed” version of the video. Tucker Carlson says on Twitter that it’ll be up on the DC at 9 p.m.

Update: A reporter on Twitter points to this Roland Martin piece for CNN in 2007 noting that the Hampton speech drew fire from some on the right at the time, mainly for O’s references to “quiet riots” as a way of describing economic despair among minorities. Martin downplays it, but he’s an O supporter. Let’s see what the DC has.

Update:Here’s the transcript — as prepared for delivery — of O’s 2007 speech at Hampton. Still not positive if this is the speech Drudge has in mind, but the screencap does match up.

Update: A friend e-mails to point out that some of the bits quoted on Drudge are *not* in the transcript. Right — it’s only the remarks as prepared for delivery. To find out how O ad-libbed, we’ll have to wait for Hannity and the DC.

Racism goes in only one direction, with the officially recognized minorities perpetual victims and whites the eternal perpetrators.

I have a feeling this will be smaller than what is getting everyone else excited. Plus, if it’s against Mitt the MSM will go on a ‘fact-checking’ spree while grabbing their shovels to bury the story if it risks hurting Obama.

“The Presidents position on [INSERT TOPIC HERE] has been evolving. His earlier statements do not reflect the current policies of this administration and is evidenced by the [INSERT OBSCURE LEGISLATIVE EFFORT HERE] Act”

O/T; everyone is too cynical about the teflon president. If he’s “teflon,” it is because no one takes the fight to him.

If John McCain, the worst presidential candidate in history, could assemble 47% of the popular vote in the midst of an economic meltdown widely blamed on his own political party, and while trying to secure a rare 3rd consecutive term for his party, and in the midst of two unpopular wars, then there is every reason for optimism, media bias notwithstanding.

This election is NOT over. Screw the media. Stop throwing in the towel.

Didn’t Hannity have some other explosive video of Obama from Breitbart’s team about 6 months ago that was supposed to be a game changer? It was something w/ Obama in it while he was at Harvard at a protest or something? Hannity built it up all day in his usual tease drama mode and it changed nothing.

The only thing at could rally damage Obama is if he is clearly making a speech or statement using racial terminology or something. The media would be forced to cover it and not be able to spin it. Obama is slick, and I doubt it’s anything like that…

If you close your eyes it would sound just like a Rev Wright sermon. Full of anti-colonialism, antisemitism, black liberation theology and Marxism but when you open it will be Barack Obama.

OR

Bill Clinton going full out on this guy should be getting us coffee. And how dare he try at take over this party that the Soros created. Hillary is a disciple from the start but Obama is a john come lately the the Soros family

If it is about Obama being a bit racist, then Drudge and every white American will be accused by the media of being racists for pointing out that Obama is a racist. (Cue the Reverend Wright tapes to see how much Obama gleaned from his sermons…)

Hillary will be banging her head on the table, “Why didn’t we have that tape in 2008!??!”

If Rev. Wright’s racist sermons on hating whites (along with videos showing the racist TUCC audiences LOVING such hateful sermons) didn’t matter to a majority of voters, it’s hard to believe that voters will care about any more of Obama’s remarks (yes, Obama has made many racist remarks also).

Probably a tape of Obama speaking on reparations and blaming “whitey” for everything and it’s time to elect someone who’ll help us get back what’s ours, blah, blah, blah. Could be that he also channels a little of Malcolm X, Calypso Louie, and Jerry “God Damn America” Wright, while disparaging conservative blacks by using the “N” word.

Since Drudge says the video is six years old – and we all know that OBOZO didn’t exist six years ago – it must be another slime piece against Romney.

TeaPartyNation on October 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM

Obama was already in the U.S. Senate in 2006, but he was still in the minority. He may have said something provocative at the time, in order to launch his Presidential campaign.

In 2006, President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld were coming under much criticism for the violence in Iraq, and Sen. John McCain was becoming prominent among Republicans for recommending the “surge” strategy, which wasn’t implemented until after the 2006 midterm elections. Mitt Romney was then in his last year as Governor of Massachusetts, and it’s doubtful that Mitt Romney would have been thinking about running for President then, and would have said something to get himself in trouble.

I’m assuming the tape must have been made in a semi-private setting — at a fundraiser, say, a la Romney’s “47 percent” comments. I wonder if Hillary’s camp knew about it all along in 2007-08 but sat on it because it was too politically dodgy or if this will be news to them too